europepmc - R Interface to Europe PMC RESTful Web Service

Europe PMC covers life science literature and gives access to open access full texts. Europe PMC ingests all PubMed content and extends its index with other sources, including Agricola, a bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature, or Biological Patents.

retrieve book XML formatted full text for the Open Access subset of the Europe PMC bookshelf

epmc_ftxt_book()

Installation

From CRAN

install.packages("europepmc")

The latest development version can be installed using devtools package:

require(devtools)
install_github("ropensci/europepmc")

Loading into R

library(europepmc)

Search Europe PMC

The search covers both metadata (e.g. abstracts or title) and full texts. To build your query, please refer to the comprehensive guidance on how to search Europe PMC: http://europepmc.org/help. Simply provide your query in the Europe PMC search syntax to epmc_search().